The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics. — Roscoe Conkling Copy Share Image
DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority. — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions. — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy. — Robert Novak Copy Share Image
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
'Politico Magazine' listed me among the top 50 'thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics' for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality. — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
In Britain, we have strict spending limits for elections. It's what has kept Britain from following the path of American politics, where… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The things that I want to see happen get no play in mainstream American politics. My primary interests are the legalization of… — Grace Dunham Copy Share Image
Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar,… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Today, the District of Columbia has more residents than at least two other states; Puerto Rico has more than 20. With numbers… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“The nation’s leaders keep throwing out the word “Washington” as a vulgar abstraction. Nothing new here: the anti-Washington reflex in American politics… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
“American thought and American politics will be largely at the mercy of those who operate these stations, for publicity is the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I spend my time out on the campaign trail, it's usually about what I can do for somebody else. I don't… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The Senate wants you to know how terribly, sincerely sorry they are even though not a single member of today's Senate was… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“Issues that agitate American politics—who is an American citizen and what rights come along with citizenship, the relative powers of the national… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“Writing in the New York Times, David Welch, a former research director for the Republican National Committee, argued that the rise of… — George Hawley Copy Share Image
“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?"… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Our political solar system, in short, has been characterized not by two equally competing suns, but by a sun and a moon.… — Samuel Lubell Copy Share Image
“The primary elections are the cornerstones of the plebiscitary presidency. They strip away the veneer of party unity and expose the individuality… — Stephen Skowronek Copy Share Image
Constraint theory argues a number of things. First, that the impossible has to be identified. Second, that the actor is then constrained… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“The CIA is behind it all. That’s the conclusion of Mae Brussell—one of America’s foremost assassination experts—a researcher who has collected every… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“Had the European traveller chanced upon Philip Dru, Administrator, a novel published anonymously the previous year about an America of the near… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When California goes bankrupt, the Golden State's woes will be nationalized and shared with the nation at large: the feckless must have… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
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